An enigma is a puzzle that should be impossible to be solved, but yet the enigma machine was able to be solved by the Allies. During World War II, the enigma machine was used to help the Germans communicate without giving out any of their plans. This enigma machine was built by a German engineer, Arthur Scherbius, in 1919. It was, however used in the war in 1939 through 1945. The Allies knew about the Germans communicating through radio messages, as they also used a code, but wanted to know what the Germans were talking about. If it could be about their plans of the war or the Germans could send false information. With the ambition to win the war, the Allies were able to crack the enigma messages, use the messages against the Germans, and was …show more content…
The enigma machine was sent to the Germans, but the Britain got their hands on the enigma. They noticed that the messages were in code like theirs and thought that the coded messages would help reveal the plans of the Germans. According to Burgan, “Both Axis Power and Allies sent their radio messages in code. Both picked up each others messages, but couldn’t understand the codes” (20). A new unit was created in Britain to help decipher the encrypted codes. This unit was called the British Intelligence. The British Intelligence unit had to work fast to decipher the coded messages because there were billions of possible combinations to figure out each coded messages. What made it worse was that the codes were changed every day, so they had to hustle. However, “The British Intelligence was able to crack the enigma code and read the messages, which helped the Allies by leading them to some military victories” (Chrisp, 43). So after figuring out the enigma messages, the Allies were able to win some battle because of the broken enigma codes. Even though the British Intelligence were being weared down from trying to break the enigma codes, they didn’t stop because they wanted to win the war. Due to the British Intelligence, they were able to crack the codes, read the messages, and help the